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Released: 20th July 2010
As well as the usual banter between John and Scotty they listen to Paul Howson describe his journey from RealBasic to MacRuby and Marcus Zarra introduces his open source Core Data syncing project called ZSync
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- Concurrent Programming on Snow Leopard
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- Hard and Fast OpenGL ES
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- Mike Lee's Engineering Life
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- Cocoa Design Patterns that Leverage the Objective-C Runtime
- Data Presentation in Mac Apps
- Signing Your Code
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- Supporting Online Play and GameKit in Your Application
- The Physics of Sumos (Building a Game with Core Animation)
- Brushing Up on Open CL
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Mike Abdullah & Scotty
Released: August 2010 Running Time 187 mins
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WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. As Mac and iOS developers a great deal of this functionality is available to us to use in out own application. Using short concise chapters this course will set you well on the way into the Wonderful World of Webkit
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Drew McCormack & Scotty
Released: June 2010 Running Time 400 mins
Platform: mac
Software Developers are in the midst of a crisis, and it is not of the financial variety --- it's the multi-core crisis. When Moore's Law for CPU clock speeds ground to halt around 2005, the chip manufacturers turned to multi-core in a bid to get more transistors on their chips. But multiple cores on each chip creates a whole new set of problems for software developers. There is no more free lunch; your software will not automatically get faster each year due to advances in CPU clock speed.
With Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Apple have introduced the technologies that it thinks can help developers tackle multicore. Cocoa classes like NSOperation and NSOperationQueue, and Grand Central Dispatch, usher in a new approach to concurrency, an approach that is safer and easier to use than traditional multithreading. Based on the concept of 'packets of computation', these powerful new technologies require a new mindset from developers.
On a different front, the GPU is starting to be taken seriously as a device for more than just graphics. With hundreds of computational cores, a graphics chip can perform certain calculations much faster than a general purpose chip like the CPU. The new OpenCL standard, which is also supported in Snow Leopard, represents a watershed moment in the history of computing, and has the potential to change high-performance computing in much the same way that the introduction of OpenGL changed 3D graphics.
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